The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 29, 1895, Page 1

' Y e — VOLUME LXXVIIL.—NO. 90. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDA‘Y MORNING, AUGUST 29, 1895. THE BAWNMORE LOST Went Ashore Yesterday | Ten Miles South of Bandon. WRECK BREAKING FAST. Two Men Washed on the Beach, One Dead, the Other Badly Injured. THE DISASTER WAS PREDICTED. Sketch of Captaln and Mrs. Alexan- der Woodside’s Troubles in Payta, Peru, ved last night from | ports that a courier had | lon from down the | 1'a large British steamer | 1 miles south of Bandon. | s the Bawnmore, bound south coast ashore s | large surf-lightters and a tugboat mounted upon From time to time during the loading of the vessel THE CALL noted in its columns the manner in which her cargo was put aboard, and the predictions of experienced people on the front. In THE CALL of Au- gust 11 was the following notice of the Bawnmore’s departure: After several days’ delay the Bawnmore got away for Central America and Peru, by way of Portland. She was fearfully loaded and pré- sented & unique appearance as she steamed out yesterday, with her upper deck piled with lumber, and with eleven passenger-oars, two the heavy timber. She was to have sailed Friday, but upon representation of the marine insurance people that the great deckload was insecure she wasdetained by anorder from the Custom-house until the officials were satisfied that the miscellaneous deck freight was better fastened. Notwithstanding these precautions it was the opinion among shipping men that the steamer was peculiarly conditioned for so long and roundabouta voyage. She was really under the Grace Brothers' charter, who for some reason let that fact remain in'the background, and she went to Portland with 600 tonsof petroleum in two of her tanks. This was a portion of her original cargo taken on board at ayta, Peru, and will be discharged at Port- land. She only had in her bunkers 160 tons of coal, which will last her to Nanaimo, when she will'fill up for her southern trip's consump- tion. Her oil-burning apparatus had been taken out and she will fire with coal in the fature. Captain Metealf of 1533 Unijon, street, Ala- meda, emg;m(itani' denies the rumor of over- loading. He said last night that the Bawn- more left porta full ship and fully insured. He continued: ““Her huil hes been insured at: Lloyds for the Ea!l eighteen months, and her entire cargo as been written at & safe margin by responsi- ble companies at ordinary rates. a miscellaneous one,and comprises all sorts and forms of general merchandise. The only deck cargo she carries are twelve bobtail cars that weigh about twelve tons and measure | | twenty-one. These are securely lashed and | | fastened, end as the ship is perfectly stanch Her cargo1s | QUAY'S CLEAN SWEEP, A Signal Triumph in the Pennsylvania Convention. IN COMPLETE CONTROL. Elected State Chairman to Succeed a Political Opponent. ALL FACTIONS HARMONIZED. Six Hastings Men Nominated for Judges by the Man They Opposed. HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 28.—The most bitter fight that has ever been experienced in the ranks of Pennsylvania Republicans isat an end, and Senator Quay is victo- rious, having swept everything before him and magnanimously consented.in the in- ey -~ X THE TOP - HEAVY BAWNMORE. [Sketched by a “Calt” artist on the day of her departure from this port. Reproduced from “The Call” of August 11.) from Portland. She went ashore in a“ thick fog. | Two of the crew came ashore, but one | died soon after reaching the beach, and the other, a Japanese, was so badly injured by being dashed against the rocks by the breakers that he could give no account of himself or the ship. The Bawnmore, at the time of the wiring of the message, was fast breaking up, and, with her cargo, was expected to be a total loss. Much of her deckload was drifting ashore. Accounts of the disaster were meager and it was not known how the catastrophe occurred. It was supposed, however, that as she was steaming in close to land her machin- ame disabled and she drifted help- on the reef. The coastis bold and | and has encountered numerous mishaps | and has twelve feet of freeboard the absurdity of the stories is patent. There is not the wildest chance of combustion from petroleum gas.” | The Bawnmore is a_stanch vessel, but her progress and return will be noted with consid- | erable interest in marine circles. | | The streetcars that loomed high up on | | her deck were old Mission bobtail cars that | had been repaired and were being taken to San Salvador. | for Champerico. Misfortune began early | on the steamer, for when the tug was being | hoisted on deck it broke away from the | slings and fell back into the water three | times, at the last going to the bottom of the bay. | The condition of the vessel was noted by | the customs official, and on the night she | was advertised to sail she was refused a | clearance until the deckload was better | All that night the crew worked in | | lashed. making everything secure. and she was | permitted to leave next morning. The Bawnmore was under charter of | Grace & Co. to bring petroleum from | | Payta, Peru, and was fitted with large tanks for that purpose. She loaded | freight for the Pacific Mail Company back | to the Central American ports on her re- turn to Peru. She was an unlucky vessel, since her launching, which took place at | Dumbarton, Scotland, in 1889. She is 279 feet long, 37.8 feet in breath and 19.4 feet | in depth. Her tonnage is 2436 regis- ter. She is a steel single-screw steamer, | Captain Alexander Woodside. rocky in that locality, and no vessel could | live long in the heavy surf that rolls on the beech. A later dispatch stated that there was no immediate loss of life on the wrecked ves- sel. The life-saving crew of Bandon had gone to the scene, and the steamer Arago, which had just arrived at Marshfield from | San Francisco, was preparing .to go to _the Wr in the morning and assisi in saving life if necessary. Bandon is about twelve miles south of Empire City, and there is no telegraph or telephone lines connecting that place with the scene of the wreck. The Bawnmore left this port August 10, bound for Champerico, Central America, by way of Portland and Comox, and was cleared by Grace & Co. and commanded by Captain Alexander Woodside, one of her owners. The manner in which she was loaded, the piling of streetcars, heavy lighters, a tug and a great mass of lumber on her spardeck, excited general attention on the water front. Old shippers thought of her round- about trip up the stormy northern coast, thence down along the Mexican and Cen- tral American seaboard, and shook their 4 beads ominously as they saw the freight and owned by W. J. Woodside & Co. of | Mrs. Woodside. Belfast, who own the Progressist, De Bay and other steamers. The'Bawnmore is fitted up with water- ballast cellular tanks, and her holds are literally huge tanks for oil. THE CaLL of February 28 of this year published the following interesting account of the steamer’s adventures in Payta and Mrs. Woodside’s exploits with a double- barreled shotgun against robbers: Afew months before taking command Cap- tain Wooasides was married in ireland and brought his bride direct from the lakes of Kil- larney to San Francisco. When the hour of his departure for tne ofl regions arrived his wife would not let him go. Expostulation was in vain, so at lastshe was 1018 to pack up her trunk and “come along.” From San Francisco the steamer went to Central Americe and there unloaded a cargo being piled up aboard of the big steamer. It was openly prophesied that if she met hard weather her wreck would be reported. of railroad tires. From that point she went to The boats and tug were | terest of party harmony, to the nomina- | tion of the six Republican Superior Court Judges as the administration forces had desired. The convention, which lasted a scant three hours, no recess being taken, was marvelously harmonious. Senator Quay’s success is regarded as a masterly political achievement. He has | secured control of the party organization |in the Keystone State, has had himself elected State chairman to succeed an active political opponent, the latter himself plac- | ing the Senator in nomination, and liter ally was the power at the convention. The | fight between the factions and the un- looked-for harmonious ending at the State | convention will be given a prominent | place in the political history of Pennsyl- vania. In addition to electing Senator Quay as State chairman, Benjamin J. Haywood of Mercer County, who was practically unop-~ posed and nominated for State Treasurer, and the six Republicans who Governor Hastings appointed as Superior Court Judges on June 27 last, were placed on the ticket. The latter nominees are: Ex-Gov- ernor James A. Beaver, Center County; Howard J. Reeder, Northampton; John J. Wickham, Beaver; George H. Orlady, Huntington; Charles E. Rice, Luzerne; E. N. Willard, Lackawanna County. The seventh member of the judiciary is Henry K. McCarthy (Democrat) of Philadelphia, the law creating the new court providing for minority representation, The first and decisive test of the strength of the factions was developed when the vote for temporary chairman was taken. Congressman John B. Robinson of Dela- ware County, the Quay candidate, received 163234 votes, against 1334 for Colonel Henry Hall of Pittsburg, the administration can- didate. Prior to the convention being called to order by State Chairman Gilkes, a Pitts- burg crowd of 100 or more, who had re- tained possession of the opera-house in the interest of the Gilkeson forces since yester- day afternoon, they being placed therein, before an armistice had been reached, to keep out the Quay followers, were dis- missed, an agreement having been reached by conferces of the respective factions to admit no one to the convention outside of delegates, contestants and newspaper men. Governor Hastings, with his Philadelphia henchman, David Martin, was one of the first delegates to enter the hall. Senator Quay followed shortly afterward, and when he had taken his seat, as a substi- tute delegate for D. R. Corbus of Beaver County, he divested himself of his coat and sat in hisshirtsleeves, while the crowd cheered. The convention was without the usnal brass band, but the manifestations of party harmony were most delightful to the delegates. The heat was intense and Governor Hastings vigorously used a fan, which contained an inscription, ‘“To keep cool and vote for Quay.” ‘When Chairman Gilkeson had called the body to order Secretary Fetteroff read the call for the convention, and Secretary Rex called the roll of delegates. -Senator Quay was substituted for D. R. Corbus as a dele- gate from Beaver County, and Congress- man W. A. Stone took the place of Dele- gate Torrence of Allegheny County. Con- gressman John B. Robinson was substitu- ted for Delegate Quigley from Delaware County, and ex-State Chairman Cooper appeared for Delegate Whipple of the same county. All of the 289 delegates responded to their names and then nominations for temporary chairman were called. | The Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Harry A. Walton, an Continued on Fourth’ Page. administration leader, presented the name ‘of Colonel Henry Hall of Pittsburg, and Senator Quay followed With the name of Congressman John B. Robinson. Ex-State Chairman Cooper, a Quay lieutenant, sec- onded the nomination of Robinson and pleaded for harmony. At this point Chairman Gilkeson called Cooper to order, and asked upon what mo- tion he was speaking. Cooper replied that he was seconding a nomination in proper order. The chairman then. relented and the ex-chairman proceeded. When Cooper was growing eloquent Sen- ator Quay surprised the assemblage by arising from his seat, two rows behind that occupied by Governor Hastings, and ap- proaching the Governor the Senator ex- tended his hand, which was warmly grasped. Mr. Quay then whispered some- thing pleasant in the Governor’s ear, and they smiled simultaneously. The dele- gates recognizing this as a peace offering cheered terrifically. Cooper thus abruptly ceased speaking. Then business went on. Frank Willing Leach and A. D. Fetterolf were appointed tellers and the call of the roll on the first test of the civil elections was begun. Hall and Robinson voted for each other. The roll-call ended, Secre- tary Rex announced 16334 votes for Rob- inson and 13214 for Hall. This made a to- tal vote of 297, which Was announced through an error of the tellers. There could only be 289 votes in the convention, but six contestants who were given a half vote each were counted as whole votes. Quay’s majority, however, was 304, the fraction resulting from the election of three delegates from the Second District of Berks County, where only two should haye been chosen. The two votes were di- vided among the three, and one ot them, H. Miller Kauffman, voted for Quay. It was first blood for Quay, however, and set- tled the factional battle in his favor. Tumultuous cheers were given when Colonel Hall moved that Robinson be chosen by acclamation, and were renewed when Governor Hastings seconded Hall’s motion. The election was made unan- imous, and Chairman Gilkeson appointed Messrs. Hall and Cooper to escort Mr. Robinson to the chair. He simply thanked the convention for selecting him and de- clared himself ready for business. Senator Quay made a motion, which was seconded by Congressman Stone and adopted by the conyention, that the com- mittee on permanent organization be in- structed to report the name oi Governor Hastings for permanent chairman. On motion of the Governor it was then de- cided to continue in session until all busi- ness should be disposed of. Congressman Stone presented a resolu- tion suspending the rule which provides for the election of a State chairman by the candidates selected at the convention and the permanent chairman, and providing for the election by the convention. There was no opposition to this. Senator Quay then presented a resolution bearing upon the civil service, which was referred to the committee on resolutions and thereaiter adopted as part of the platform. The com- mittee on permanent organization was, after very little delay, announced, with T. L. Eyre of Chester County as chairman. The committee on resolutions organized with District Attorney George S. Grabam of Phifadelphia as chairman, and the per- manent organization followed. Senator Quay and Chris L. Mcgee of Pittsburg es- corted Governor Hastings to the platform, from where, after the enthusiasm of the delegates had subsided, the Governor said: Gentlemen of the convention: Ithank you most sincerely for = this great honor. The weather is too warm; I will not make a speech. I may, however, say that the recent events in the Republican party of Pennsyl- vania prove the saying that electric storms have the effect of clearing the atmosphere, and we reserve the cycloue for the free-trade, debt- creating Democratic party. After the nomination by acclamation of Benjamin Haywood for State Treasurer Benator Qnay in a brief speech presented the names of six Republican members of the Superior Court for nomination, and moved that they all be selected by accla- mation, believing such action would result to the best interests of the party, and the motion was adopted. At this junecture State Chairman Gilke- son was substituted by a Berks County delegate, and he moved that Senator Quay be elected State chairman. The delegates outdid themselves in enthusiasm when Mr. Gilkeson had concluded, and the scene was the most impressive of the con- vention. Congressman Stone then seconded the nomination of Mr. Quay. - His selection in the present contest, he said, meant not only a great majority in Pennsylvania this fall, but it meant the election of a Re- publican President in 1896, for his selec- tion as chairmanof the Republican National Committee in 1896 meant the defeat of the Democratic party. “It matters not,” he said in conclusion, “s> much whether our candidate for Presi- dent comes from the young and growing Republican State of Iowa, the.greater State of Ohio, or whether we shall take the great Republican fighter, Thomas B. Reed of Maine. but it does matter whom we select as chairman of the National com- mittee. Mr. Quay was then elected by acclama- tion. The committee on resolutions re- ported the platform, which was read by District Attorney Graham of Philadelphia, who explained that the platform had been adopted by & majority of the committee against the protests of a large minority. State Benator Penrose arose and stated that it was not the practice in parlia- mentary procedure to explain the action of a committee, but Mr. Grabam said he made the explanation at the request of the minority in order to avoid a minority re- port. The platform was read as follows: The Republican party of Peansylvania in convention assembled makes the folloying declaration of principles: We accept unreservedly the determination enunciated by the Republican National Con- vention of 1892, and we demand tae use of both gold and silver money with such restrie- tionis and under such provisions, to be deter- mined by legislation, as will secure the main- tenance of the parity of values of the two metals; that the purchasing and debt-paying power of the dollar, whether of silver, gold or paper, shall &t all times be equal. Faithful to the Republican party, and be- lieving it to be the settled doctrine of the party that the honor of the Nation and the interests of its citizens require the maintenance of a National currency, every dollar of which, whether in gold, silver or notes, shall be of stable value and of equal purchasing power, this convention hereby declares its opposition to the debasement of the National currency by the admission of silver 'to- free and unlimited coinage at the arbitrary ratio of 16 to 1. ‘We declare our continued adherenceto the protective policy which has been sturdily championed for a hundred years by thé great men of our State and of our Nation and to the acceptance of which, policy by the Republican | Continued on Second I'ege. FOUND STOLEN COIN. Eleven Thousand Dol- lars Unearthed Near Sacramento. GOLD BURIED IN A CAN. Sald to Be Part of the Pro- ceeds of the Yolo Train Robbery. DISCOVERED BY DETECTIVES. Tramps Belleved to Have Secured the Larger Portion of Brown- Ing’s Plunder. SACRAMENTO, Car., Aug. 28.—At 11 o’clock A. M. to-day the long search for the treasure stolen at the time of the Yolo train robbery resulted in the discovery of a buried can which contained over $11,000 in $20 gold pieces. These are a portion of the amount which was taken from the sacks found beneath a pile of ashes several days ago, near the spot where Brady claimed Browning had told him the money was secreted after the successful robbery. A few days after Brady had informed the officials of Browning’s confession to him, a large party of treasure-seekers went from this city armed with spades and mat- tocks, and delved long and bard in an ef- fort to secure some trace of the missing coin, but their efforts were in vain, and be- coming discouraged they ceased their ef- forts. Detectives Thacker and Hume were by no means satisfied that all of the treasure had been removed from the locality, and they kept a small force of men at work to make a more systematic search of the surroundings, with orders to extend opera- tions in different directions, and eventu- ally they were rewarded by the discovery of the empty sacks which had contained the treasure. These were in an old gunnysack secreted beneath a pile of ashes at the foot of a tree, the body ot which contained two bullet holes. As soon as the men engaged in the search reported their find to Detective Thacker he ordered the digging resumed, as he reasoned that the money had been lately discovered, because of the visible imprint of the $20 pieces on the canvas sides, and if lately discovered the weight would be such that it would be impossible for the finder, if there was but “one individual, to carry it off in its en- tirety. o - Several days’ more work was performed and at 11 o’clock to-day a mattock in the hands of one of the searching party struck against a tin can. Rapidly throwing aside the loosened dirt and . catch- ing a gleam of the gold, he uttered a shout that quickly drew the rest of the treasure-seekers to his side, and the receptacle was rapidly unearthed and its contents poured out and counted, the result causing an intense feeling of disappointment, as it was hoped that the can contained nearly the entire amount of the stolen gold, when in reality it held but a small portion. Itis generally conceded that the gold was fourid by tramps, who carried away all they possibly could and buried the residue with the intention of returning for it at a favorable opportunity, but there is also a rumor that suspicion rests upon a certain person in the employ of the company, although but little foundation for this rumor exists, as the officials absolutely refuse to talk on the sub- ject. The fact remains, however, that $11,000 has beer recovered and lies in the company’s safe, and somewhere in the State of California some unknown individual is rolling in wealth and enjoy- ing the proceeds of ill-gotten gains. LIVES LOST IN A GALE Pleasure Boats on Lake Onon- dago Capsized by High Winds. At Least Four Persons Known to Have Perished In the Water. SYRACUSE, N.Y., Aug. 28.—A wind and rain storm of terrific violence swept over this city at 5 o’clock this afternoon. Onondago Lake was covered with boats filled with pleasure-seekers from the State fair and the lake resorts when the storm burst, and at least four persons, and per- haps more, were drowned. The small excursion steamer Freeman was heavily loaded with passengers and was in midlake when the storm broke. There was a wild scene on board. Men rushed for life-preservers and buckled them on, while seyeral men and women fell on their knees in prayer. The boat lurched terribly, and the escape of those on board was almost a miracle. She reached her landing safely, however. It will be impossible to ascertain the number of lives lost before morning. THE BOAT CAPSIZED. Four Persons Drowned in the St. Clair River. PORT HURON, MicH., Aug. 28.—Dur- ing a squall and rainstorm on the 8t. Clair River, near Marysville, a rowboat contain- ing four persons was upset and all were drowned. Theirnames are: Frank Dernfg, Mrs. Michael Dernfg, Miss Edith Collier, Miss Celia Choniski. Pl b oy SUIT AGAINST KANSAS CITY. Action to Be Brought by a Bond Syndi. " cate for Breach of Contract. b -KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 28.—Judge ‘Willham B. Hornblower of New York is in this city for the purpose, so atlorneys of the. city say, of bringing suit against the city for alleged breach of contractin not selling the $3,000,000 of water works borids to the Boston Bond Syndicate. He first came into contact with the Kansas City water works case as the attorney of James A. Blair & Co. of New York, who dickered for the bonds.. When Blair & Co. dropped out Judge Hornblower became the adviser of the Iilinois Trust Company, and when this_concern withdrew from the Boston syndicate, which had contracted for the bonds, he was retained by Blair & Co. again when thev became part of the Bos- syndicate. Judge Hornblower held back his opinion on the validity of the bonds. Story & Thorndyke, the Boston attor- neys, were willing to advise accepting them without subrogation, but Judge Hornblower continued to hold back, and thus the syndicate finally forfeited the rights to the purchase of the bonds. Tt is expected that damages of about $300,000 will be asked in the impending suit, but the attorneys for the city are firm in the conviction that the annuling of the contract with the syndicate to accept a better offer for the bonds from the National Water Works Company will stand in law. e S LAVELLE'S SKELETON FOUND. Bones of a Montana Rancher Who Was Murdered Fourteen Years Ago. BUTTE, Mox~T., Aug. 28.—Hunters have fourd the skeleton of Joseph Lavelle, a cattleman, who disappeared from his home, eight miles south of the city, four- teen years ago. Another cattle - dealer named Napoleon Collette, a few weeks after Lavelle’s disappearance, said that he had murdered Lavelle and burned his body. Collette was arrested and tried for murder, but no trace of his victim could Pe' found and he was acquitted and soon eft. The skeleton found was identified by Lavelle’s shotgun, which lay by the side of the bones. gl‘he bones were lying be- tween two large bowldersin the moun- tains. Some charred pieces of wood indi- cated that an effort had been made to burn the body. HOLWES T BE NDICTE Must Answer to the Charge of Murdering Howard Pitzel. An Inquest Held Over the Frag- ments of the Unfortunate Child’s Body. INDIANAPOLIS, Inp., Aug. 28.—Coro- ner Castor to-night began the inquest over what is left of young Howard Pitzel. De- tective Geyer, Inspector Gary and a negro named Peter Ireland were examined. Ireland was employed to clean up the house after the Burnham family left it on account of the smell. He narrated the efforts made to remove the smells about the kitchen and described the furniture and stove which had belonged to the strange tenant who left so suddenly. The Coroner reports that the three clumps of matter taken from the chimney had been dissected with most important results. One mass was shown to contain a part of the pelvis bone, to which there was yet attached considerable flesh. There have also been recovered five of the upper wvertebre bones of the lad’s spinal column. Some boys who continued the digging in the cellar this afternoon found a pair of boy’s laced shoes. 'The Coroner decided to send for Mrs. Pitzel, in order that she might identify the shoes and overcoat, with a view to indicting Holmes in this county for the crime of murder. It is said that the evidence is strong enough to bring apbout an indictment. The Coroner’s in- quest was continued. FTE OF TRAN-ROBBERS, Ten Years in Prison for Two of the Brady Island Bandits. Confessed Their Gulit and Were Soon on the Way to the Penltentiary. OMAHA, Nesr., Aug. 28.—Hans and Knute Knuteson, who participated in the robbery of the Union Pacific express train at Brady Island, have admitted their guilt. The United States Marshal returned to- day and gave an interesting account of the man hunt. He said: ““The Knutesons were green at the busi- ness. When the fireman ran off with the engine they concluded they had no more business in that country and they left without looking into the express-car to see if the dynamite had blown through the safe. They lost a Winchester rifle about fifteen feet from the car and lost their dynamite when they were getting on the horses. They lost the horses six or eight miles from the train by riding them into a barbed-wire fence. They walked on and must have. gone on foot about 100 miles with the roundabout way they took. “They were hard to trace after they left the horses. They went part of the way with their shoes on and part of the wa barefooted, for their feet were sore. Thoug! the country was full ‘of people searching for them, they were not seen irom the time they left the train until they reached Callaway, thirty-five or forty miles away. The robbery occurred Tuesday morning, and they reached Callaway Saturday. They climbed on a freight train that was running fifteen miles an hour and rode to Mason City, near where they were cap- tured by local officers.” In the District Court at North Platte to- day Hans and Knute Knuteson pleaded guilty to the charge of robbing the express at Brady Island, and were sentenced to ten years each in the State peniten#iary. gt e KILLED BY INDIANS. Reported Murder of Agent Baldwin at the Anadarko Agenoy. EL RENO, O.T., Aug. 28.—It was re-' ported here to-day that Captain Baldwin, U. 8. A, acting agent at the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache agency at Ana- darko, had been murdered last night by Indians. The report lacks verification as yet, but Federal officers credit it, except that they believe the murder was com- mitted by gamblers and whisky peddlers, against whom Captain Baldwin had been wa{)i:g war for some time. A large party of Deputy Marshals are on the way to that coumrsy. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 28.—The Indian Office has heard nothing of the re- orted killing of Captain Baldwin,U. S. A., y Indians jn Oklahoma as reported in dispatches from El Reno and are inclined to doubt the accuracy of the report. L g At the Danger Limit. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 28.—The gold reserve in the treasury ie just above the $100,000,000 mark, standing at the close of business to-day at $100,182,943. A with- drawal of ,000 in at New York for export to Europe and_the taking up in the Treasurer’s_cash of $600,000 in gold with- drawn last Monday has caused the decline. RICE FIVE CENTS. PLACING THE RAILS Work on the Main Line of the Valley Road Begun. ACTIVITY AT STOCKTON. Large Forces of Men Pushing Three New Railroads to Completion. GRADERS ARE NEARING LODL Construction of the Roadbed for the Electric Terminal Well Un~ der Way. STOCKTON, CaAL., Aug. 28.—The Valley road this morning began in earnest to lay track within the city limits. The work of track-laying that has been done heretofore has been merely preliminary to the work tnat was done to-day. Early this morning Superintendent of Construetion Wilbur began at East street with a force of men to lay ties and rails westward on Taylor street. The work of distributing the ties was commenced first, and these had to be hauled by team from the material yards to the East-street end of the track. Tragk-laying on Weber avenue is pro- gressing as rapidly as possible. Street Su- perintendent Bidwell yesterday, in com- pany with Mayor Baggs, visited the section being laid now on the avenue. Bidwell went there with the Mayor for the purpose of deciding whether to insist on the road complying with the terms of its franchise or to allow it to lay macadam between its rails in place of the basalt pavement taken up. The Street Superintendentdecided on macadam. The Mayor is still of the opin- ion that the franchise should be adhered to strictly. A large force of men under Grant Bros. is now at work grading in the Searchlight addition, and but one more day’s work will be required before the gap between the grade on the Learned place and thatin the city is closed up. The Mormon Channel trestle inside the city will be completed to-morrow. The bridge-builders are rushing all their work, and the force under Cotton Bros., who are engaged outside the city, have nearly fin- ished the fourth bridge called for in their contract. The piling is about done, and work will be finished as soon as the bridge timbers arrive. The bed of Mormon Channel, between San Joaquin and El Dorado streets, pre- sents a busy scene. There the men who aré throwing up the grade on the Corral Hollow road are at work. The graders had some trouble atfirst in getting over the track which the Valley road had laid at the intersection of Taylor and Hunter streets. This was not fixed so as to permit teams to pass, but Mayor Baggs and Superintendent of ‘Streets Bidwell sent a request to Mr. Wilbur of the Valley road to make a proper crossing there, and yes- terday the tracks were planked over to permit the Corral Hollow workmen to cross them. A number of carpenters are at work constructing a piledriver for use in erecting the trestle bridge over the channel at Hunter street, where the Corral Hollow track will cross. Next week the work of the piledriving will commence. The grading of the roadbed for the Stock- and Lodi terminal railway is being pushed as rapidly as men and teams can do the work. Every department of this enterprise is being carried forward with a view to a speedy completion. The graders are now within three miles of Lodi. They are meeting with some difficulty in the way of hard ground, but as heretofore these obsta- cles are speedily overcome. The resolute and quiet manner in which the projectors are carrying forward the work in all its de- partments is admired by business men of this city and the people along the line of the road. All the detail work—securing the rights of way, obtaining water front and arranging all of the difficulties that arise with property-owners, especially in passing through valuable vineyards, etec., and in removing fences and houses—has been done so satisfactorily that nothing has happened to delay or hinder the prog- ress. The citizens of Stockton and Lodi, as well as the people living along the line of the road, are anxiously awaiting the com- pletion of this enterprise. It isadmitted by all that this road will be one of the most important commercial features of the city of Stockton, as all the freight and passengers along the line of the road will be discharged at Stockton. This brings the citizens of Lodi and the surrovnding country into closer commaunication with the city of Stockton, and, consequently, with San Francisco. To Run Throuqh Clovis. FRESNO, CaL., Aug. 28.—The engineers of thie Valley road are surveying through Clovis. This is the shortest route to Visalia and passes through the richest country, tapping the largest flumes in the State at Clovis and Sanger. The Clovis Flume Company alone will ship over 3000 carloads per year., It will take over 800 cars to move the grain. This is also the center of a large wine and fruit region. Quarreled to the Death. PITTSBURG, Pa., Aug. 28.—Alexander Hutchinson shot and killed James Getty Jr. at the latter’s office in his wholesale liquor. establishment this morning. The men quarreled over a sale to Hutchinson by Getty of the Hotel Willey, on which ]:{utchinson had paid $200 to hold the bar- gain. Hutchinson Wwished to call the deal off, and came_to Getty’s place to demand areturn of the money. Getty refused to ive up the money and Hutchinson shot gim dead. He immediately surrendered to the police. Hair Growing in His Mouth. RED OAK, Towa, Aug. 28.—Mr. Lid- well, living several miles north of here, had a surgical operation for cancer of the face performed in Omaha a short time ago, in which it was found necessary to turn a flap of the skin back on the wound, turn- ing the hair on the inside. The hair keeps growing and at regular intervals Lidwell has to go to a doctor to have the inside of his mouth shaved, the hair growing from the reversed flap of skin. For additional Pacific Coast news see Pages 8 and §